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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

Scrum.org

We spend countless hours developing strategies to prevent bad outcomes, such as project failures, missed deadlines, and unmet expectations. However, there's another side to the risk coin that is critical in product development: the potential for positive outcomes. And that’s how you can get Unstuck. -

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7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing

ProjectManager.com

These new skills are reflected in the new Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines for certification and professional development units (PDUs) needed to maintain certification, a new triad of skills they’re calling the “Talent Triangle.” So, you’re asked to wear more hats, but you’ve only one head. What do you do?

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Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation

Scrum.org

How many people struggle with juggling Business as usual (BAU) operations as well as delivering products to customers and well as investing in innovation? Some teams even use their BAU workload as a reason that they can’t go agile? They were essentially “Run” teams building and tweaking stuff. The “Build” part was “Agile”.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. We didn’t need it.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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Why Skipping a Sprint Retrospective Is a Bad Idea?

Scrum.org

An effective Sprint Retrospective ensures the team remains cohesive and aligned, leading to sustainable development and innovation. Still, the decision to skip a single Sprint Retrospective can adversely affect the team and the product's development process. With this reflection, teams can iterate on their process.

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Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio Management: Shaping the Future of Strategy

The IIL Blog

These offices are enablers to successful delivery of strategy and in many organisations are a rich source of structured and unstructured intelligence. Elevating portfolio management demands a commitment to both respected best practices and the innovative incorporation of AI. In 2023, Dr.